As post photos will show, this is a ridiculous tablet design, with wide black borders around the screen. Why didn’t Onda bite the damn bullet and narrow it in all those dimensions? The hell with matching the iPad dimensions for ease of getting cases.

According to industry sources “core intellectual inquiry,” obtained millet second generation tablet will abandon the ARM architecture processor, instead embrace Intel chip, will be powered by Intel Cherry Trail chip, which means that the machine supports Windows 10 system is not a problem. At the same time, it’s useless to give up MIUI millet system based on Android, is now actively debugging MIUI, to prepare for the dual system. In another design, the second generation of millet tablet will use a metal body, and iPad mini styling is similar to the screen size or maintained.

And the hell of technology is that in about ten years, that’ll be US$269 and be considered low-end.

Microsoft’s announcements look exciting but the reality is often a letdown.

Still, I’d like to do a Google Books PDF test even on the cheapest one, just to see. Microsoft will be opening a store in NYC shortly. Even so, trying to use something other than what’s already installed — hello, Adobe Reader X — will likely be impossible.